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And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

Coming to Houston was an opportunity that I couldn't pass up.

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.

I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.